More local favorite restaurants have failed their initial inspections. What do you think of the system we have in place locally? Is it sufficient and fair, or not?
The Gold N’ Silver restaurant on 4th street, Charlie Palmer Steak at the GSR and Egg Roll King on Prater Way are three of the local restaurants to initially fail inspections by Northern Nevada Public Health in November, with more than six critical violations each.
The violations are of the kind that can be corrected during the inspection.
For example, the three restaurants were all found to have failed to separate raw animal foods from raw or cooked ready-to-eat foods.
Other restaurants which recently failed initial health inspections included Ruth’s Chris Steak House on Virginia Street, L&L Hawaiian Barbecue and Mountain Mike’s Pizza.
Under current guidelines, restaurants can remain open before a reinspection to see if problems remain corrected. If critical violations are found that can’t be repaired during the inspection though that forces the establishment to close.
NNPH has a list of over 50 possible violations, with other common ones including having too little chlorine in dishwasher or not having a proper system to dispose of food after being prepared or opened.
